AAfCW 2015 Volunteer Update #16

This is the sixteenth weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2015 season. Today's update includes reports of Piping Plover, American Oystercatcher, Least Tern and Common Tern from July 13 through 4:00 p.m. on July 20 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff spanning that period.

Informational updates:

After a chance of thunderstorms to start this week there should be average temperatures and sunny weather until the weekend. Please remember to avoid monitoring in particularly hot conditions where the temperature is near or above 90 for your safety and that of the young birds and vulnerable nests. Amazingly we had more Piping Plovers hatch in the last week, and we should have another nest hatch this week! Therefore there are still young and older chicks, fledglings, juveniles and adults living on many of our beaches and beginning to disperse and migrate. Least Terns have had a difficult year on the mainland for reasons mostly beyond our control, but locations like Milford Point and Griswold Point are now seeing a handful of chicks hatching. American Oystercatchers are also still attempting to nest in some areas, with a range of ages for their species as well. Please keep your data and all observations coming, and thank you for your monitoring and efforts in educating the public when you are at the beach!

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover
4 adults, 4 juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/13
20 adults, 10 fledglings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/13
1 pair, 2 adults, 3 hatchlings, 1 juvenile at Hammonasset on 7/13
2 pairs, 6 adults, 4 hatchlings, 4 fledglings, 8 juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/14
1 pair, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 7/15
20 adults/fledglings/juveniles, 2 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/15
2 pairs, 3 adults, 3 hatchlings, 1 fledgling, 4 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/15
1 adult, 11 juveniles at Milford Point on 7/15
1 adult, 1 hatchling at Pleasure Beach on 7/15
4 pairs, 7 fledglings, 4 juveniles at Hammonasset on 7/16
1 adult, 4 fledglings at Cedar Island on 7/16
1 pair, 3 hatchlings, 1 juvenile at Long Beach on 7/16
5 adults, 4 hatchlings at Bluff Point on 7/16
7 adults, 2 hatchlings, 3 fledglings at Milford Point on 7/16
4 adults, 4 hatchlings, 7 fledglings/juveniles at Milford Point on 7/16
1 pair, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 7/16
2 pairs, 1 adult, 4 hatchlings, 2 fledglings, 4 juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/16
4 pairs, 5 adults, 7 hatchlings, 4 juveniles at Griswold Point on 7/16
1 pair, 5 adults, 2 hatchlings, 9 fledglings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/16
3 pairs, 2 adults, 6 hatchlings, 10 fledglings at Griswold Point on 7/16
8 adults, 10 fledglings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/17
1 pair, 1 adult, 3 hatchlings, 12 juveniles at Milford Point on 7/17
1 pair, 1 adult, 3 hatchlings, 1 fledgling, 1 juvenile at Long Beach on 7/17
1 adult, 1 fledgling at Pleasure Beach on 7/17
2 pairs, 1 adult, 4 hatchlings, 4 fledglings, 4 juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/18
3 pairs, 1 adult, 10 fledglings at Hammonasset on 7/18
1 adult, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 7/18
24 adults/juveniles, 4 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/18
6 adults, 5 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/19
1 pair, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 7/19

American Oystercatcher
3 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/13
1 pair, 2 hatchlings at Hammonasset on 7/13
4 pairs, 1 adult, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/13
1 pair at Long Beach on 7/13
1 pair at Short Beach on 7/13
2 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/14
1 adult at Seal Rocks Mystic on 7/14
2 adults, 2 fledglings at Trumbull Avenue Milford on 7/15
2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/15
1 pair, 1 fledgling at Quinnipeag Rock on 7/15
2 pairs, 2 fledglings, 2 juveniles at Shore Rock on 7/15
1 pair at Long Beach on 7/15
1 pair at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/13
1 adult at Pleasure Beach on 7/15
1 pair, 3 hatchlings at Hammonasset on 7/16
1 pair at Cedar Island on 7/16
1 adult at Long Beach on 7/16
1 pair, 3 hatchlings at Bluff Point on 7/16
3 pairs, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/16
2 pairs, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/16
1 pairat Sandy/Morse Points on 7/16
1 pair at Griswold Point on 7/16
3 pairs, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/17
1 pair at Long Beach on 7/17
1 pair at Lewis Island Thimbles on 7/17
1 pair, 1 adult at Thimble Islands on 7/17
1 pair, 2 fledglings at Channel Marker on 7/17
1 pair, 1 fledgling at Umbrella Island on 7/17
1 pair, 2 fledglings at Pages Cove on 7/17
1 pair, 1 nest at Darrow Rocks on 7/17
3 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/18
1 pair, 7 adults, 3 hatchlings at Hammonasset on 7/18
3 pairs, 1 adult at Menunketesuck Island on 7/18
3 adults at Shell Avenue Milford on 7/18
3 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/17
1 adult at Great Captain's Island on 7/17
1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/18
1 pair at Long Beach on 7/19

Least Tern
30 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/13
30 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/13
31 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/15
2 adults at Long Beach on 7/15
12 pairs, 1 hatchling, 10 nests at Milford Point on 7/16
11 adults at Hammonasset on 7/16
1 pair, 15 adults, 1 hatchling, 1 nest at Bluff Point on 7/16
40 adults at Milford Point on 7/16
50 adults at Milford Point on 7/16
20 adults, 3 hatchlings at Griswold Point on 7/16
24 pairs, 12 adults, 20 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/16
23 pairs, 28 adults, 2 hatchlings, 2 juveniles, 13 nests at Milford Point on 7/17
1 adult at Long Beach on 7/17
15 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/17
22 adults, 2 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/17
50 adults/juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/18
30 pairs, 10 adults, 22 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/18
2 pairs at Hammonasset on 7/18
120 adults, 14 hatchlings, 12 fledglings at Menunketesuck Island on 7/18
7 adults at Long Beach on 7/19

Common Tern
3 adults at Long Beach on 7/16
1 adult at Milford Point on 7/16
12 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/16
6 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/17
1 pair at Great Captain's Island on 7/17
7 adults, 2 juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/18
23 adults, 2 juveniles at Hammonasset on 7/18
50 adults at Menunketesuck Island on 7/18

This concludes update #16 through 7/20/15 as of 5:00 p.m.

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